Japan's Super GT series remains a favorite at the Autoblog office, because like British Touring Cars and Germany's DTM, the cars look vaguely like the ones you can actually buy, and the racing is close and intense.

From the 1967 through 1997 model years, the Mercury Cougar was a badge-engineered, slightly more expensive version of a Ford model— a Mustang, or a Torino, or a Thunderbird, and so on. For its final generation, though, the Cougar stood alone in the American car market.